Look who's trying out for next season's Flavor of Love.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Tom Scola - Aug 30, 2007 11:42:51 am PDT #6364 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jon B. - Aug 30, 2007 11:58:43 am PDT #6365 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ha! I just voted for her. Why not?
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2007 12:09:17 pm PDT #6366 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
All the youngfolk may not realize it, but back in the olden days, playing an audio cassette in your car was fraught with peril.
Seems that back in 1986, this guy's sports car went over a cliff, pinning him under the wreckage. But wait - it gets worse, as this newspaper headline shows: 6 Hours of Wham! Worse Than Broken Arm
Yep - the dangers of auto-reverse tape decks....
lisah - Aug 30, 2007 12:14:19 pm PDT #6367 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Tom, that is HILARIOUS!!! I am telling all my friends to vote for her.
ETA it has been b'logged
Also, randomly, a friend ran into Flava Flav at a burger king in the Las Vegas airport a couple of weeks ago. Best. Celebrity. Sighting. Ever.
sumi - Aug 30, 2007 12:17:34 pm PDT #6368 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, but he owned that tape, right?
Clearly, his own fault.
Tom Scola - Aug 31, 2007 8:13:33 am PDT #6369 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The smoking gun of the loudness war is the difference between the waveforms of songs 20 years ago and now. Here is an example:
Hayden - Aug 31, 2007 8:30:53 am PDT #6370 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
My friend and neighbor Joe has written on the same issue, although his use of Mastodon as an example of overcompression leads me to believe that his ears are more finely tuned than mine. I can hear it on many CDs, but Mastodon is too fuzzy for me to hear the overcompression.
bon bon - Aug 31, 2007 10:20:53 am PDT #6371 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I don't know much about audio, but isn't that [compression] what they do with television commercials to make them louder?
(Shoot 'Em Up being a recently egregious example.)
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2007 10:45:21 am PDT #6372 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
but isn't that [compression] what they do with television commercials to make them louder?
Yep.
Unrelatedly, my Ford Focus had a stereo that could compress the audio so quiet parts would be easier to hear over the engine noise, etc. Except it wasn't perfect - there was a bit of a lag. So if the stereo was playing something quiet (with the volume boosted) that suddenly went very loud, it would blast out the loud part for half a second before reverting to the normal volume.
I ended up just turning off that feature.
Liese S. - Aug 31, 2007 10:57:41 am PDT #6373 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, it's a huge problem. It is for us in the studio, too, because the bands expect to hear something coming out of our work that is as loud as their radios, and I refuse to compress the hell out of it on basic principle. I don't spend all that time in the session encouraging dynamic variation just to flatten it all back out in the end.
Usually I end up compromising, or I give them what I want, and they can take it to mastering to crank it up. I give up responsibility at that point.